Cbeyond Announces Interoperability with Cisco Unified Communications 500 Series.ATLANTA -- Cbeyond[R], (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on : CBEY CBEY Center for Business and the Environment at Yale ), a leading IP-based managed services An umbrella term for third-party monitoring and maintaining of computers, networks and software. The actual equipment may be inhouse or at the third-party's facilities, but the "managed" implies an ongoing effort; for example, making sure the equipment is running at a certain quality provider to small businesses, today announced its BeyondVoice[TM] with SIPconnect service is interoperable with Cisco Unified Communications The real time redirection of a voice, text or e-mail message to the device closest to the intended recipient at any given time. For example, voice calls to desk phones could be routed to the user's cellphone when required. 500 Series (UC500), a unified communications solution designed for small businesses. Cisco Unified Communications 500 Series is a key component of Cisco's Smart Business Communications System In telecommunication, a communications system is a collection of individual communications networks, transmission systems, relay stations, tributary stations, and data terminal equipment (DTE) usually capable of interconnection and interoperation to form an integrated whole. (SBCS (character) SBCS - (IBM) single-byte character set. A character set that uses 8 bits to represent a character. ). The UC500 Series with the SBCS resides at the small business premise and supports the integrated delivery of voice, data, video, security and mobility services. The UC500 provides voicemail and automated attendant In telephony, an automated attendant (also auto attendant or auto-attendant, or sometimes autoattendant or AA) system allows callers to be automatically transferred to a user's extension without the intervention of a receptionist. and integrates with existing desktop applications such as calendar, e-mail, and customer relationship management (CRM (Customer Relationship Management) An integrated information system that is used to plan, schedule and control the presales and postsales activities in an organization. ) to enhance small business productivity and responsiveness. "Cisco is excited to collaborate with Cbeyond to continue to drive profitability for our channel partners with a managed SIP trunk solution," said Mark Monday, vice president of Product Marketing for Cisco. "This combination of Cbeyond's SIPconnect service and SBCS offers a complete solution for small businesses to interconnect into a highly secure network, which will also provide additional services." Cbeyond's BeyondVoice with SIPconnect service is an integrated package of local and long-distance voice, mobile and broadband Internet services provided with a SIP trunking service to ensure a consistent quality of service, low cost and full-featured telephony for SIP-based VoIP calls. "We are pleased to complete interoperability with Cisco's new UC500 series solution," said Chris Gatch, chief technology officer for Cbeyond. "Using Cisco and Cbeyond, small businesses are now able to leverage the power of end-to-end IP communications to reduce their deployment cost, and to take advantage of rich, personalized features typically only available to larger enterprises." About Cbeyond Cbeyond, Inc. (NASDAQ: CBEY) is a leading IP-based managed services provider that delivers integrated packages of communications and IT services to more than 29,000 small businesses in Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Detroit, Houston, Los Angeles and San Diego. Cbeyond offers more than 20 productivity-enhancing applications including local and long-distance voice, broadband Internet, mobile, BlackBerry[R], broadband laptop access, voicemail, email, web hosting, fax-to-email, data backup, file-sharing and virtual private networking. Cbeyond manages these services over a private, 100-percent Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) facilities-based network. For more information on Cbeyond, visit www.cbeyond.net. CBEY-F CBEY-G |
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